{"id":45,"date":"2005-02-05T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=45"},"modified":"2005-02-05T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T22:35:52","slug":"beards-ahoy-the-final-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Beards Ahoy! &#8211; The Final Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As proof of my belief in the &#8220;spring is coming&#8221; predictions of local pig L&#8217;il Bit (see a few posts below), I decided to bid farewell to my beard today&#8230; but not without a bit of fun in which I removed small sections at a time in order to yeild the most ridiculous facial hair looks I could.  My conclusion: there&#8217;s a reason Chester A. Arthur was the only U.S. President who was single. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/the_beards_progress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/_the_beards_progress.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" alt=\"beards progress\" title=\"beards progress\"  \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was <em>very<\/em> tempted to remain in the &#8220;Orange County Chopper&#8221; configuration for a while, but I was on a roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As proof of my belief in the &#8220;spring is coming&#8221; predictions of local pig L&#8217;il Bit (see a few posts below), I decided to bid farewell to my beard today&#8230; but not without a bit of fun in which I removed small sections at a time in order to yeild the most ridiculous facial hair &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=45\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}